A youthful girl asked me why the flights dont shift over the north pole to stockpile time and fuel? Any answers?


Answers:    Radiation risk

Recent studies show that passengers and crew member flying on transpolar routes are exposed to unusually high level of cosmic and solar radiation. According to Robert Barish, a New York health physicist who just now spoke to the International Herald Tribune, the dosage received during each flight along the transpolar route is equivalent to three chest X-rays and may be significantly increased by solar flare radiation.

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Cancer fears issue Hong Kong air crews' New York trips
HONG KONG (AFP) — Airline Cathay Pacific have limited nouns crews' flights on the non-stop Hong Kong-New York route after it was found the go could increase the likelihood of cancer, a report said Sunday.
Staff of the British-owned, Hong Kong-based airline read aloud they have be limited to purely two of the ultra long-haul flights per month since it was found the route exposed passenger and crew to high level of cosmic radiation when they flew over the North Pole.

Union chiefs told the South China Morning Post radiation levels increase markedly at 26,250 foot above the pole and prolonged exposure could be harmful to cell DNA possibly cause cancers.

"If you do two and a partially polar flights a month you are in the hazard zone," Flight Attendants Union general secretary Becky Kwan be quoted as saying.

To cold.!
Flight path hav,nt been built nonetheless.
unpredictable climate perhaps..
or since its too cold, the engine might freeze up ;)
Often, the auto-pilot and other instruments contained by a plane depend on using a magnetic compass to narrate where north is. Flying over the north pole would make happen instrumentation to fail, since when you're at the north pole a compass will only just spin around. It's far easier and safer to just travel around it.
takes force xD
could
penguins will sue us
they wont have relieved ffeet anymore
more like gasoline foot
There are 2 main reason.

First, the weather in the severely far north is very unpredictable and severe. The rides would be so rough that not a soul would want to fly over the poles.

Second, the temperatures are extremely cold. The wing and fuselage (body) could possibly begin to rime.

Some military aircraft are built to withstand the extreme wether and cold. None of the commercial aircraft that I know of are built for those conditions.
The cold drains the fuel faster.
Nothing to do with the North Pole weather - you're typically flying higher than a stratum where it matter - it's a question of distance - the flight track would be longer
There's a no-fly zone over the North Pole due to Santa's Village.
Is that snow down the there?

No, its reindeer!!
Because santa's workshop have a no-fly zone..it might interfere with the fresh reindeer practicing their flying lessons.
in that is a no fly agreement over the north pole.
Look on a globe, the shortest point between 2 places is not the route we are used to on a flat map, unless you are flying virtually direct North/South!

Planes fly great circle routes. The cities they fly between do not enjoy their shortest routes over the N. Pole.
They do fly over the North Pole, basically most trans polar flights use these routes e.g.(Beijing/New York) those routes hold been used for slightly sometime but because there are some guidelines and requirements, not adjectives carriers use them.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requires U.S. operator to obtain specific approval to conduct polar operation. The approval process validates airlines' preparedness to conduct such operation. The FAA defines the North Polar nouns of operations as the nouns lying north of 78 deg north latitude. The FAA information memorandum Guidance for Polar Operations (March 5, 2001) outlines 10 issues:

Airport requirements for designation as en route alternates.
Airline recovery plan for passenger at diversion alternates.
Fuel freeze strategy and monitoring requirements.
Communication capability.
Minimum equipment catalogue considerations.
Airline training.
Long-range crew requirements.
Dispatch and crew considerations during solar flare.
Special equipment.
Validation requirements for area approval.
i took a flight from ewr unusual york to singapore. it went north pole (probably not exactly the pole), next came down through siberia, mongolia, china to singapore.
i can't find any two of a kind of big cities in the northern hemisphere that hold the exact same longitude and are exactly opposite within latitutude.
because the earth spins on its axis at around 1,000 miles an hour, if you fly right over and after you will probably miss your destination because you are moving to slowly in a different direction from the dirt, and the earth is moving so hurried you are so disproportionate that you actually lose more fuel tryin to fly to yur destination again, to be precise why when you fly west it seems longer because you are moving within earth's direction and if you move east you are bound to meet your destination.

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